African Agriculture and Food Systems
The FY 2026/2027 ask of Tsh 1.106 trillion is slightly smaller than this year’s. Read closely, the shape of the spending tells a sharper story: Tanzania is building, not starting; finishing, not announcing. Tanzania’s agriculture minister has tabled a Tsh 1,105,950,115,000 budget for the financial year that begins on 1 July 2026. The figure is […]
352 youth trained in sisal value addition — 305 of them women. 100 cashew-shelling machines for 2,800 youth and women in the cashew belt. Tanzania’s value-addition agenda is moving from policy aspiration to factory floor. Value addition has been a fixture of Tanzanian agricultural policy speeches for at least two decades. The phrase usually arrives […]
For 25 years, Kaizirege Camara has kept bees and built a business around the hive. Today he exports Tanzanian honey, rice, flour, and beans to Britain — and credits AGCOT for connecting him with the producers who make it possible. By Kilimokwanza.org News Desk | April 2026 | Kaizirege Camara is known in the Agro […]
1,250 sets of pumps, generators and pipes are being distributed to smallholder farmers in seven regions. 250 are deployed; 1,000 more are queued. When fully distributed, the kits are expected to bring 19,200 hectares — roughly 48,000 acres — under irrigation. Tanzania has 780 large-scale irrigation projects in motion across the country. Behind those headline […]
“Chipsi mayai, chips mishkaki, chips kuku, chips mwitu, bajias, viazi karai, mukimo, atakilt wat — one tuber, a continent of flavours.” A Comprehensive Socio-Economic and Culinary Analysis of the Irish Potato in African Societies By Anthony Muchoki The historical trajectory of the potato, scientifically classified as Solanum tuberosum, represents one of the most profound botanical […]
Kilimokwanza.org | Strategic Feature · AGCOT Corridor · April 2026 AGCOT in Review · Ten-Year Public Investment Analysis · Corridor Progress Report Tanzania Built the Foundation. Now the Corridor Is Ready for Its Agricultural Moment. A landmark ten-year public expenditure review of the SAGCOT Corridor reveals a country that kept — and dramatically exceeded — […]
From cotton to cardamom, from sunflower to cocoa, from apples to avocado — the Ministry of Agriculture’s 2026/27 budget speech is, on close reading, an inventory of nearly thirty value chains. Here is what is on the list, what each is targeted to deliver, and what the architecture tells us. Kilimokwanza.org Editorial Desk Read the […]
A Dutch-funded agroforestry project in rural Morogoro is showing how nature-based agriculture, farmer training, and market linkage can work together, one seedling at a time By Kilimokwanza.org | Mkuyuni Ward, Morogoro Region, Tanzania | April 2026 On a Saturday morning in early April, a senior official at one of East Africa’s leading agricultural development organisations […]
Tanzania’s commodity boards have hired 1,434 young agricultural graduates as field extension officers in a single year. It is the most concrete youth-employment data point in the entire FY 2026/2027 Hotuba — and a structural shift in how Tanzanian farmers will be advised. In a country where extension service has been chronically under-resourced for decades, […]
An African Development Bank-backed guarantee is now mobilising more than double its own value in lending to young farmers and women-led agribusinesses. AGITF is lending Tsh 5.5 billion at 7% or below. The youth farming finance gap is being attacked from three directions at once. Young Tanzanians who want to farm have always faced the […]